The constellation
L222 Modest choice: parting gift. Small gift with blessing preferred to large gift with parent's curse
A constellation is one motif’s neighborhood in the record — the story-shapes filed around it, the tale types that carry it, and the texts where it is witnessed, every line a receipted link. Click a motif to travel. Click a text to read it. The entry · wander
● motif
● tale type
● on the shelf
● attested
The same sky, in words
filed under
- Modest request best · L220 entry
beneath it
- Modest choice for parting gift – money or counsels. Counsels chosen · L222.1 entry
- Modest parting gift best – meat or bones. Bones thrown to pursuing dogs delay them and allow escape; not so with meat · L222.2 entry
- Modest choice for parting gift: when offered money man takes magic stick · L222.3 entry
- Modest choice of parting gift: magic iron measure chosen · L222.4 entry